The Province of Ontario and the City have the power to save the Experimental Farm.

Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act gives municipalities the ability to designate heritage conservation districts. 

Characteristics of heritage districts. A concentration of heritage buildings, sites, structures; designed landscapes, natural landscapes that are linked by aestheic, historic and socio-contexts or use.  A framework of structural elements including major natural features such as topography, land form, landscapes, watercourses and built form such as pathways and street patterns, landmarks, nodes or sections, approaches and edges.

Historic buildings on the Experimental Farm in Ottawa: Agriculture Museum, Arc Biotech, Booth Barn, Cafeteria Annex for the Sir John Carling Headquarters, Carpenters Shop, Dairy Technology Annex,Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Engineering Annex, Genetics Building, Heritage House, Horse and Cattle Barn, Horticulture Building, K.W. Neatby, Laboratory Services, Learning Centre, Main Dairy Barn, Main Greenhouse Range, Nutrition Complex, Photo Equatorial Building, Service Buildings, Small Animal Barn, South Azimuth, Swine Showcase, William Saunders.

Landscapes: Fletcher Wildlife Garden, Arboretum.

Watercourses: The streams and lakes in the Fletcher Wildlife Garden.

Pathways and street patterns: Maple Lane, the NCC Scenic Driveway, Observatory Crescent, Sentier Trail.

Landmarks: The Dominion Observatory, modeled after Sir Christopher Wren's Observatory in Greenwich, England; the sundial in front of Ottawa's Observatory, and the Agricultural Museum. The nearby Dow's Lake and Commissioners Park are landmarks, members of the Dutch Royal Family visit these venues and hundreds of thousands of tulips bloom in the park every year. The Canadensis Sun Shelter.

House of Commons Ottawa June 16, 1958. Hon. George James McIlraith (Liberal): "Mr. Chairman, I wonder if the minister is now prepared to make the statement he said he would make concerning the policy of the government with respect to buildings on the central experimental farm."

Mr. Green: "The policy is that no buildings will be built on the central experimental farm except buildings for the Department of Agriculture."

Mr. McIlraith: "If I may pursue the first question a bit furthur, has the minister come to any conclusion as to what will be done with the land when (the temporary buildings) are removed?"

Mr. Green: "I take it that the hon. member for Ottawa West refers to temporary buildings Nos. 5 and 8. For some years the policy has been when the temporary buildings are torn down nothing will be constructed on the site."

Mr. McIlraith: "I want to commend the minister for continuing the policy set out a few years ago by the Liberal administration in that regard. I believe he will agree it is a very satisfactory policy." (Temporary building No. 8 was on Queen Juliana Park, 870 Carling Avenue, Ottawa and Temporary building No. 5 was on the Dow's Lake parking lot. savecfbrockcliffe.)

The Friends of the Farm are worried about the future of the Observatory Campus, William Saunders Building, Heritage House and the Genetics Building. (From: Friends of the CEF Fall 2017 newsletter.)

Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Federal Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan in front of the now-vacant William Saunders Building. The hospital evicted the nearby DARA Tennis Club.

 

Heritage Conservation Districts in Canada's Capital are the Village of Rockcliffe Park, New Edinburgh, Lowertown West, Russell Range, the Sparks Street Mall, Cathedral Hill and Centretown.